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Authors: Monica Crowley
Bush and, 248
need for foreign policy reform and, 349–50, 356
nuclear weapons and, 249–50, 274, 275
Obama and, 214, 238–40
Iraq
Bush and, 207, 248
need for foreign policy reform and, 348–49
Obama and, 214, 236–40, 299, 306–7
Islam, Obama’s “healing” relations with, 214–15
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), 258
Islamists
Arab Spring and, 247–71
Free Gaza flotilla and, 302–3
U.S. foreign policy and, 352–53, 356
Israel
Egypt and, 254, 255, 259–60
Islamists intentions toward, 245–46, 249, 251, 252, 256
Obama’s treatment of, 300–305
U.S. diplomacy and, 348, 350
Issa, Darrell, 296
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 24
Jackson, Linda, 182–83
Jackson, Michael, 5–6, 9
Jackson, Reverend Jesse, 192
Jagland, Thorbjørn, 218
Jalil, Mustafa Abdul, 268
Jarrett, Valerie, 38, 46, 52
Jarrett, Vernon, 38
Jarrett, William, 38
Jefferson, Thomas, 28, 333
Jerusalem, U.S. embassy and, 348
“jobs bills,” 108, 148, 177.
See also
unemployment
John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy, 197
Johnson, Kevin, 95
Johnson, Lyndon, 83, 84
Jones, James, 242
Jones, Van, 66–67, 199
Joseph, Peggy, 49, 53, 54
JournoList, 57
justice, social and economic.
See
redistributionist agenda
Justice Department, 122, 149
declines to enforce laws, 326
illegal immigrants and, 291–92
Iran and, 250–51
Kahn, Richard, 82
Kaiser, George, 93
Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 179
Karroubi, Mehdi, 248
Karzai, Hamid, 214
Kasich, John, 193, 196
Katyal, Neal, 51
Keeler, Sharon, 218
Kellman, Gerald, 42
Kenin, Wendy, 227
Kennedy, Edward, 69, 135, 141
Kennedy, John F., 23, 24, 156
Kerry, John, 11, 24, 33
Keynes, John Maynard, 81–83, 89, 91, 327
Keystone XL pipeline, 186–87, 264
Khalidi, Rashid, 12, 39, 258, 300
Khan, Majid, 230
Khan, Samir, 214
Kim Jong-un, 351
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 24
Koh, Harold, 268
Krentz, Robert, 285–86
Kristol, Irving, 24
Krugman, Paul, 89
Kucinich, Dennis, 129
Kundra, Vivek, 67–68
Kurds, 299
Kurtz, Stanley, 39
Kyl, Jon, 60
La Belle nightclub bombing, 264
Laffer, Arthur, 156
LaJuenesse, William, 295
Landrieu, Mary, 185
Latin American, U.S. foreign policy toward, 357
Lavrov, Sergei, 271–72
laws, Obama administration’s decline to enforce, 326
“leading from behind,” 210–11
Left
anger and tactics of, 20–21
anti-Americanism of, 206–12
Obama as perfect radical candidate, 11–13
radical movement of 1960s and, 11–12, 24–28
U.S. citizens’ anger over statism, redistribution, and notion of American decline, 13–21
Lehman, John, 347
Lenin, Vladimir, 164
Lerner, Stephen, 199
Libbi, Abu Faraj al-, 233
Libya, 218, 263–69, 352, 356
Lieberman, Joseph, 25
Lincoln, Blanche, 70
Lizza, Ryan, 211
lobbying, Obama administration and, 323
Los Zetas, 289
Lundestad, Geir, 218
Mack, Connie, 335–36
Mackey, John, 189
Massachusetts, 19, 69, 293
Matthews, Chris, 55
McCain, John, 102, 170–71
McChrystal, Stanley, 241–43
McDonald’s, 142–43
McDonnell, Robert, 69
McGovern, George, 24
McKinney, Cynthia, 302–3
Meacham, Jon, 85
media
Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, 295
ideological affinity to Obama, 55–58, 75–76
Shahzad’s motives and, 221
support of Obama’s programs, 58
Medicaid
costs of, 84
need to reform, 338
ObamaCare and, 140, 340
as percentage of mandatory spending cost, 88
redistributionist agenda and, 62
Ryan plan’s proposal for, 107, 338–39
Medicare
costs of, 83, 84
as nontaxable income, 176
ObamaCare and, 132, 139–40, 340
as percentage of mandatory spending cost, 88
redistributionist agenda and, 62
Ryan plan’s proposal for, 107, 338
Medicare Part D, 85, 112
Medvedev, Dmitry, 252, 272, 274–75
Megrahi, Abdelbaset al-, 264
Meister, Stephen, 341
Melson, Kenneth, 297
Mendell, David, 35
Merkel, Angela, 212
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, 291
Mexico
H. Clinton in, 216
illegal immigration from, 285–98
MF Global, 148
Michigan, 69
military tribunals, 223, 228
Milton, John, 333
missile defense shield, in Europe, 273–74, 277, 283, 347
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh (KSM), 223, 224, 226, 228, 229–30, 233
Mondale, Walter, 24
Montgomery, Ed, 68
Moody’s, 122
Moore, Michael, 153, 192, 218
Morales, Evo, 299
“more perfect union” speech, of Obama, 47–49
Morocco, 259, 352
Mottaki, Manouchehr, 251
Mousavi, Mir Hossein, 248
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 224
MoveOn.org, 130
Mubarak, Hosni, 254–57, 261–62, 355
Mughrabi, Dalal, 302
Mullen, Michael, 307
“multiplier effect,” of Keynes, 81–83, 89, 91
Muñoz, Cecelia, 293
Muslim Brotherhood, 261–62
Egypt and, 254–61, 303
Muslim Students Association (MSA), 258
Napolitano, Janet, 294, 296
National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), “healing” relations with Muslims and, 215
National Bureau of Economic Research, 155
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Simpson-Bowles deficit commission), 111, 115–16, 198, 337
National Council of La Raza, 293, 297–98
National Economic Research Associates, 183
National Institute on Money in State Politics, 195
National Labor Relations Board, 178–79
National Legal and Policy Center, 197
National People’s Action, 41
national security, Obama’s leading from behind and, 210–11
National Security Strategy, under Bush, 219
NATO, 347
natural gas exploration, 342–43
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 301, 302, 304
NetJets, 155
Nevada, 70, 144
New Deal, 79–81, 82, 83
New Jersey, 19, 69, 144, 193
New Party, 166
Newsweek
, 85
New York City, 33, 153, 225–26
attempted car bombing in, 220, 221
New Yorker
, 210–11
New York State, 70, 193, 293
New York Times
, 75, 99, 140, 141, 217, 275
Nixon, Richard, 24, 25, 231, 279–80, 284, 341, 345
Nobel Peace Prize, 216–19
No Child Left Behind, 85, 112
Non-Proliferation Treaty, 275
North Korea, 275, 281, 351–52, 356
nuclear weapons
Obama’s promise not to use, 275–77
Obama’s revelation of U.S. arsenal size, 276
plans to cut U.S. arsenal size, 282
proliferation of, 249–50, 264, 274, 275, 349–50, 356
Nunn, Sam, 25
Obama, Barack on American exceptionalism, 6
campaign rhetoric in 2008 and redistributionist agenda, 45–59, 249, 271, 278, 300
Constitutional constraints ignored by, 44–47
education in socialist ideology, 38–44
as “grievance identifier,” 54
health care goals, 128
inaugural address in 2009, 59, 60
as keynote speaker at 2004 convention, 34–35
as perfect radical Left candidate, 11–13
policies and redistributionist agenda, expansion of government, and permanent Democratic majority, 59–71
self-regard and self-confidence of, 35–37
speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, 320–22
taxes and, 147, 149, 151, 160
“virtuous” redistribution and, 7–9
Obama, Barack, Sr., 38
Obama, Michelle, 37, 46, 52
quotes Alinsky, 42–43 2008 campaign and, 48, 325
Obama, Onyango, 293
ObamaCare, 124–46.
See also
health care reform
autoworkers and, 100
consequences to economy, 122, 138–39
consequences to health care system, 139–41
deficit spending and, 88, 106
Founders’ vision of private property and, 145–46
individual mandate and, 51, 127, 135
media and, 58
Obama on, 323
politics behind writing and passing of, 130–36
provisions and costs of, 133–34, 136–38
reforms needed, 339–40
regulations of and unemployment, 179
Republican alternatives to, 136
single-payer system aimed for, 128–30, 139
waivers from, 142–45
Occupy Wall Street movement, 41, 164–69, 199
Tea Party movement contrasted, 166–67
offshore drilling, 342
Ogden, David, 296
Ohio, 144, 193
oil and gas industry
hydrofracking and, 342–43
regulation of, 184–88
taxes paid by, 187
Olmert, Ehud, 300
Olympic Games, 1972, 264
$100 bills, flawed, 87–88
one-worldism, 345
Onyango, Zeituni, 293
Open Society Foundations, 166
Operation Wide Receiver, 294, 295
Opinion, La
, 288
Oregon, 63
O’Reilly, Bill, 257
Organizing for America, 193
Orszag, Peter, 176
Ortega, Daniel, 69, 213
Osawatomie
, 320
Osegueda, Julio, 59
Osorio-Arellanes, Manuel, 286
“ozone rule,” 183
Paine, Thomas, 27–28, 312
Pakistan, 244–45, 353–54, 356
Palestinian Authority, 348
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), 12, 39, 264
Palestinians, 302–4
Pan Am flight 103 bombing, 264
Panetta, Leon, 229, 282, 283, 304
Paracha, Sayfullah, 230
Paracha, Uzair, 230
Parkinson, Mark, 226
Path to Prosperity (Ryan budget plan), 71–72, 107–8, 122, 334–40, 341–42
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
See
ObamaCare
Paul, Rand, 332
Pelosi, Nancy, 21, 25
enhanced interrogation techniques and, 232